{"id":221367,"date":"2025-05-22T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=18f9e3783c92ffc7675e265622b337fc"},"modified":"2025-05-22T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:22:17","slug":"another-milestone-for-x-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=221367","title":{"rendered":"Another Milestone for X-59"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A white plane sits in a hangar that has a curved ceiling. The plane has markings on it including a NASA logo and &quot;X-59.&quot; Several people are inside the hangar as well.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg 6717w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=2048,1366 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p25-037-35orig.jpg?resize=2000,1334 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its \u201caluminum bird\u201d systems testing at Lockheed Martin\u2019s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft\u2019s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">Lockheed Martin\/Garry Tice<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert \u2013 all without ever leaving the ground. The goal of ground-based simulation testing was to make sure the hardware and software that will allow the X-59 to fly safely are properly working together and able to handle any unexpected problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aeronautics\/x-59-aluminum-bird\/\">Learn more about this series of exercies, dubbed \u201caluminum bird\u201d testing by engineers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: Lockheed Martin\/Garry Tice<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert \u2013 all without ever leaving the ground. The goal of ground-based simulation testing was to make sure the hardware and software that will allow the X-59 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronautics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221368,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221367\/revisions\/221368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}